diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
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+++ b/app/models/user.rb
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+class User
+  include Mongoid::Document
+  include Mongoid::Timestamps
+
+  field :username, type: String
+  field :email,    type: String
+  field :password, type: String
+end
diff --git a/test/fixtures/users.yml b/test/fixtures/users.yml
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+++ b/test/fixtures/users.yml
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+# Read about fixtures at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Fixtures.html
+
+# This model initially had no columns defined.  If you add columns to the
+# model remove the '{}' from the fixture names and add the columns immediately
+# below each fixture, per the syntax in the comments below
+#
+one: {}
+# column: value
+#
+two: {}
+#  column: value
diff --git a/test/unit/user_test.rb b/test/unit/user_test.rb
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+require 'test_helper'
+
+class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  # test "the truth" do
+  #   assert true
+  # end
+end